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Carnival of the Green #27

Before we begin, a few acknowledgements and details. Thanks to City Hippy and Triple Pundit for organizing this roving digest. If you are interested in hosting it one week, see their sites for details. Thanks also to Hippy Shopper for hosting Carnival #26 on May 8, 2006, and Website Design and Promotion, who will host Carnival #28 on May 22, 2006.

In honor of Mother's Day, we are happy to pay tribute to Mother Earth by passing along these submissions on everything from rust to Whole Foods to infertility. Mom would be so proud. Read on.

Enrique at commonground provides a link to this recent New York Times article (and a couple of others) on Whole Foods. Hereâ€™s a sampling, "Whole Foods perceived elitismâ€”encouraged by the company or notâ€”has earned it a cultlike following among well-heeled, health-obsessed professionals, who consider it a badge of honor to buy their fair-trade organic coffee, cage-free eggs and hydrogenated-oil-free cookies there."

With a list of suggestions on ways to celebrate Endangered Species Day (via the National Audubon Society), A Concerned Scientist echoes the Senate's resolution calling for, "The people of the United States to become educated about, and aware of, the threats to species, success stories in species recovery, and the opportunity to promote species conservation worldwide."

Laura Lynn Klein, publisher of www.OrganicAuthority.com, submits this recent study by the Environmental Working Group. The study tested the blood and urine samples of four mothers and their daughters looking for a common relationship between the "body burden," or the chemical cocktail of industrial pollutants that's found in the human blood stream, of mothers and their daughters. Find out what the study revealed!

Camden Lady offers a summary of green AIM-listed companies that sheâ€™s intending to research and possibly include in her pension portfolio. There are so many innovative businesses out there creating better ways of generating power, reducing waste, and using resources better.

Deanna invites bloggers everywhere to blog on Tuesday, May 16th, in a "Stop the Divine Strake" Blogswarm Day. The Divine Strake Test, scheduled to be detonated at the Nevada Test Site in June, is an explosion of 700 tons of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil that will send a mushroom cloud two miles into the air. Analysts predict it will stir up contaminated soil from past nuclear tests at the site, sending radiation downwind and potentially affecting the environment and health of citizens in surrounding states. The test is also yet another violation of the Treaty of Ruby Valley, since the site sits on Western Shoshone Land and the U.S. Government has never gained permission to hold tests on that parcel of land. Dee of Dee's 'Dotes is also helping to organize a massive action at the test site on May 28th. Details can be read on her blog at http://deesings.livejournal.com/273814.html. Everyone, please register to participate in the blogswarm!